championship series
Final tournament round
A championship series is the final round of games in a sports league or tournament that determines the overall winner.
The term appears most often in baseball, where the League Championship Series precedes the World Series, but applies broadly to any decisive sequence of games: The championship series goes to seven games.
- fansArdent admirers or coolers
- finalsConcluding tests or matches
- grand finaleSpectacular concluding event
- teamsOrganized cooperative groups
- playoffsChampionship elimination series
stadiums · pennant race · wild card · crowd · clinch · victory · Cinderella story · sweep · postseason · broadcasts · Stanley Cup · best of seven · game seven · winner take all · buzzer beater · prestige · legacy · dynasty
- sporting eventsrace, game, match, games, final
- championshipsfinals, title match, NBA Finals, World Cup Final, grand final
- tournament roundsfirst round, second round, third round, final round, opening round
- tournamentstournament, tournaments, bracket, brackets, tournament brackets
- baseball seasonregular season, playoffs, postseason, spring training, pennant race
- MLB PlayoffsALCS, NLCS, NLDS, wild card, wild card game
championship seriesregular season
Standard competitive period before playoffs
exhibition game · preseason game · friendly match · scrimmage · spring training
championship seriesregular season
Standard competitive period before playoffs
season opener · preseason · first round · early season · preliminary round